Constantine Buckley KILGORE

(1835-1897)

KILGORE, Constantine
Buckley, a Representative from Texas; born in Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga., February 20, 1835; moved with his parents to Rusk
County, Tex., in 1846; received a common-school and academic
training; studied law; during the Civil War entered the Confederate
Army as a private and by 1862 had attained the rank of adjutant
general of Ector’s brigade, Army of the Tennessee; was
admitted to the bar and practiced in Rusk County, Tex.; elected
justice of the peace in 1869; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1875; elected to the State senate in 1884 for a term
of four years; was chosen president of that body in 1885 for two
years; resigned from the State senate in 1886, having been elected
to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895); appointed by
President Cleveland United States judge for the southern district
of Indian Territory March 20, 1895, and served until his death in
Ardmore, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), September 23, 1897;
interment in White Rose Cemetery, Wills Point, Tex.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present